RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] VM ware

i also used vmware although it has been a while. i used it on a dual cpu
machine (dual celeron 500's--remember the dual celeron thingie a few years
back?) was able to run just about anything on it, although acad2000 was a
touch slow. something ive seen recently (not yet released) is something
called lindows, which WILL be a version of linux that will allow windows
installations and will supposedly run all windows programs! an excellent
translation layer for people migrating from MS. i used win98, with the
98lite hack that allows more stability and speed (uses the win95
shell..etc... look it up at www.98lite.com i think) you can also use other
shells that will supposedly be more stable and faster, but i personally
didn't have the expertise to make them work.
---Dave L.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Elson [mailto:elson@...]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:41 PM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] VM ware


carlcnc@... wrote:

> Is anyone using VM ware in conjuncyion with Linux/Windows?
> Does it work well? Any issues that are un resolvable?

YES!!! I have built a new system, starting with a Dell desktop
box, 1 GHz Pentium III, 512 MB memory, 40 Gb disk, CDROM
writer. I put Mandrake 8.1 (very new kernel, but VERY nice
features!!) on it. When I installed VMware, I found out I needed
the latest (3.0) which was in Beta test then (now released).
It works VERY well, a TOTALLY amazing program. A 1 GHz
Pentium is so fast, I really can't comment on performance, as
it is excellent on both Linux and Win2K simultaneously.

The only issue I have is making the parallel port work in
Win2K, and this appears to be a windows problem, not VMware.
The parallel port works in Win95 under VMware, which is the
workaround to make the EPROM programmer work. I intend
to keep poking on the parallel port under Win2K problem, as
it is of use to us for a variety of programs.

There are several ways to hook up 'virtual' disks, or real partitions
to the 'guest' OS, some of them allow you to transfer files between
systems and some don't. One restriction is that you can't have
two operating systems writing to the same disk partition (file
system) at the same time. I'm pretty sure there are ways around
this with the Samba setup, but I'm no expert in Samba, so I haven't
gotten that working yet.

VMware may also need you to run it from a root account, or give
it priviledges, but that's no problem for most personal systems.

Overall, a totally amazing program, and it works remarkably well.

You can allow Windows to take over the whole screen, and you can't
tell it is not a machine running Windows natively. You can switch
back to Linux with a couple key clicks and mouse clicks, and you
can't even tell the windows system is there in the background.
Or, you can have the guest OS in a window on the host OS's
screen.

You can make either Linux or Windows the host OS, but for security
and reliability, I think Linux is the obvious choice. (This machine
I write this from, my home system (not the one described above, that
is my work system) has been up over 70 DAYS without a reboot!
You won't see that with Windows.)

Jon


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